8/24 at 6:30pm in SF - Screening of Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman

Hosted by the New College of California's Activism & Social Change Emphasis degree program and the Mexico Solidarity Network in
solidarity with the women of Juarez, Mexico.

Tuesday, August 24
New College of California
777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

6:30pm Señorita Extraviada: Missing Young Woman
Showing, by Lourdes Portillo

8:00pm Q&A with Jessica Marques, Mexico Solidarity
Network

In the border city of Juarez, the number of women who have been murdered has grown from three a year to three a month since the passing of NAFTA.

In those ten years, over 380 women have been violently murdered in Juarez, and hundreds are not yet found.

This event is a fundraiser for the International Caravan for Justice in
Juarez and Chihuahua, which will make a stop in San Francisco October
24(see schedule below). $5 donation requested. For more information
about the caravans, go to:
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/juarezcaravans.html

For more information contact:
Graciela Trevisan, New College, 415/437-3414
Helene Vosters, New College, 415/437-3408
Jessica Marques, Mexico Solidarity Network,
415/621-8100 or jess [at] mexicosolidarity.org

Related upcoming events:
September 2, 7:00pm--New College of California, (Room,
TBA)
Organizing meeting for the San Francisco stop of the International Caravan for Justice in Juarez and Chihuahua

October 24, 7:00pm--New College of California, (Room,
TBA)
International Caravan for Justice in Juarez and Chihuahua stop in San
Francisco. Speakers include:
Mrs. Ramona Morales is the mother of Silvia Elena Rivera Morales, a young woman killed in 1995. In the nine years since the murder of her
daughter, Ramona has lost hope in justice. Her suffering does
not end, remembering the murder and torture of her daughter and the loss of her husband, father of Silvia Elena who died only two months after Silvia Elena's death.

Days after Silvia's dissapearance, two police officers came to Ramona's home to take her to the morgue to identify the cadaver of her daughter, but alone, and without the embrace of loved ones, she could not
face the pain and she could not beleive that the bodied in front of her was
her beloved daughter, yet she immediatley recognized that Silvia Elena was there, dead, beaten and mutilated. That day, Ramona had to beg for money in the street in order to return home, as the police who brought her to the morgue were unwilling to drive her home. Agravating her suffering, the police issued defamatory declarations about her daughter to the press,
justifiying her death by saying that she was a prostitute, which, as in other
cases, was a lie.

Ramona, a 65 year old woman, struggles tirelessly, in spite of her
illnesses and emotional and physical exhaustion, and the permanent pain that does not diminish after many years. She continues seeking
justice in the hope that not only will the authorities shed light on the
assasination of Silvia Elena, but will also retract the defamatory
declarations made against her daughter.

US Speaker (TBA)